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Philly DJ Colby Colb Hosts Town Hall Meeting Series - AllHipHop

Philly DJ Colby Colb Hosts Town Hall Meeting Series

If Philly has always had a hand in the hip-hop game, it’s recent boom in talent has definitely confirmed it as a major player. A heavy lineup of respectable MC’s has kept praises for the City of Brotherly Love on the lips of hiphop heads from South Philly to South Central for almost two decades now. But like every other market that holds weight in the trends and talents of the music, the Philadelphia community has expressed some concerns and grievances about the direction of contemporary hip-hop Enter radio talent, 103.9 personality Colby Colb. He and his staff have organized and hosted Philly’s first ever hip-hop Town Hall meeting series, forums designed to openly discuss the effects of hip-hop culture on the surrounding community. In doing so, he hopes to encourage conversation between parents and artists, educators and community leaders, students and activists. "I wanted to address the number one complaint, that it effects young people and young people do crazy things because of it, which I disagree with," Colby told AllHipHop.com. "I wanted to get the right people there to have a conversation about it." The right people at the first meeting consisted of a panel ranging from the infamous C. Delores Tucker, Def Jam President Kevin Liles, hip-hop artist Freeway, two students, Michael Dyson and Darlease Blount, all engaging a maximum capacity audience at the African-American Museum in Center City. The outpouring of public response and the ever-present need of a conscience in hip-hop has inspired Colby and his crew to regularly schedule hip-hop Town Hall meetings for the community every six months, with the next one set to jump off in August. "Hip-hop is the voice of the people. I just think that hip-hop owes it to keep being the voice of the people and not forgetting that. That’s all."

If Philly has always had a hand in the hip-hop

game, it’s recent boom in talent has definitely confirmed it as a major player.

A heavy lineup of respectable MC’s has kept praises for the City of Brotherly

Love on the lips of hiphop heads from South Philly to South Central for almost

two decades now.

But like every other market that holds weight

in the trends and talents of the music, the Philadelphia community has expressed

some concerns and grievances about the direction of contemporary hip-hop

Enter radio talent, 103.9 personality Colby

Colb. He and his staff have organized and hosted Philly’s first ever hip-hop

Town Hall meeting series, forums designed to openly discuss the effects of hip-hop

culture on the surrounding community.

In doing so, he hopes to encourage conversation

between parents and artists, educators and community leaders, students and activists.

"I wanted to address the number one complaint,

that it effects young people and young people do crazy things because of it,

which I disagree with," Colby told AllHipHop.com. "I wanted to get

the right people there to have a conversation about it."

The right people at the first meeting consisted

of a panel ranging from the infamous C. Delores Tucker, Def Jam President Kevin

Liles, hip-hop artist Freeway, two students, Michael Dyson and Darlease Blount,

all engaging a maximum capacity audience at the African-American Museum in Center

City.

The outpouring of public response and the ever-present

need of a conscience in hip-hop has inspired Colby and his crew to regularly

schedule hip-hop Town Hall meetings for the community every six months, with

the next one set to jump off in August.

"Hip-hop is the voice of the people. I just

think that hip-hop owes it to keep being the voice of the people and not forgetting

that. That’s all."